Author: DOuG pRATt

Wayno, No Relation to Waymo

In the LINKS section of this site and you will find Dan Piraro’s Bizarro. It’s a comic strip with a sideways and inside-out view of the universe we are all required to inhabit.

https://www.bizarro.com/

Go to Bizarro and you will find Wayno, Dan’s partner in cartooning craziness. Wayno handles Bizarro every day except Sundays. Dan reserves that cartoon for himself.

https://comicskingdom.com/creator/wayno

Wayno is another favorite cartoonist of mine who I was very pleased to meet this weekend. I caught up with him during Saturday’s events at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library.

Wayno has picked up on something that’s amused me for a long time — the effect on the Beatles from adding an “s” to their name.

© Bizarro Studios

Return to Hootin’ Holler!

I refer you to this post from late last year, about one of my very favorite comic strips.

Snuffy Smith, by John Rose, is the definition of a perfect strip in the classic tradition. It presents a humorous, self-contained world, both familiar and unreal, with its own internal logic.

No Love for Pratts?

To our mutual amusement, John and I have chatted about how he settled on “Pratt” for that sequence in the strip.

The answer? John explained it was a perfectly innocent selection. He simply needed a name and that was the one he happened to pick.

He even put the well-worn Hootin’ Holler welcome mat in writing. Whew, that’s a relief!